Band 6+: The table shows forested land in millions of hectares in different parts of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Shown in the table is how many millions of hectares of forested land in six different continents of the world between 1990 and 2005.

Overall, it is clear that most forested land in millions of hectares on all continents decreased during the time period, and the opposite was true for Europe and Asia.

To begin with, the number of millions hectares of forested land witnessed an slight increase at the first decade of the period, from 989 to 998 millions hectares of forested land. However, in Asia, there were 6 million hectares that was reduced (from 576 to 570) in 2000 whereas this figure then climbed up to 584 millions hectares of forested land at the end of the time period.

Meanwhile, South America, where the amount of forested land was high at the beginning, was decreased significantly from 946 to 882 millions hectares of forested land in 2005. It was followed by Africa, which declined from 749 to 691 millions hectares. On the other hand, North America and Oceania saw the smallest change, each of them decreasing less than 4 millions of hectares.